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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 6

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1100 PM EST Sat Feb 6 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  North and central Florida

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 1100 PM

  until 700 AM EST.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple intense tornadoes possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Multiple supercells are expected to spread inland from the

northeast Gulf across portions of north and central Florida

overnight. The environment will support a risk of a couple tornadoes

along with isolated damaging winds and marginally severe hail.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles

north and south of a line from 15 miles west northwest of Saint

Petersburg FL to 25 miles south southeast of Daytona Beach FL. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch

area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for

threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements

and possible warnings.



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AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 24040.



...Grams

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